[lbo-talk] Alternet reviews Singer's latest (The Way We Eat)

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Wed May 24 13:14:12 PDT 2006


At around 24/5/06 3:40 pm, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how much does it cost a vegan -- on average so that
> one isn't eating the same thing daily -- to get the correct protein
> requirements so you don't suffer vitamin deficiencies and get in all
> your require amino acids and fatty acids. (That's without taking pills)
>
> what's a sample of a three day menu?
>

I am not vegan, but interestingly outside of milk and cheese (consumed directly mostly, and in fairly small quantities), yoghurt is the only animal product I knowingly eat. Let us call me a "ovo-lacto-vegetarian" (since eggs go into a whole host of things that are difficult to keep track of).

My grocery bill for meals (I eat out once or twice a month, which I am not including) comes to about $200-$300/month for two. It can easily be reduced by 25-50% without losing much.

Menus are probably going to be meaningless to provide, since 50% of them will be Indian food that most (almost all) on this list will have no clue about (probably including the guy who wanted to pull out a South Indian cookbook while dismissing Singer).

We do not consciously allot/choose foods to meet protein or other requirement. Never have. Nonetheless, I have a fairly clean medical history/status.

Proteins come from lentils, beans. Vitamins from vegetables and fruits. Carbs from breads. Fat is probably the tricky part?

Some potential menu options:

- Pasta with vegetables and marinara or pesto - Salad (lettuce, olives, beans) with bread - Roti (bread) with Alu Palak (potatoes, spinach) - Vegetable pulao (rice) - Rice with beans and cauliflower curry - Dosas (crepes) with brinjal (egg plant) sambhar - Pita bread and hummus - (Black and Kidney) Beans, Peppers and rice - Coconut milk Thai red curry with rice - Tofu hot dogs - Lentil soup with grilled peppers and lettuce on sourdough bread - Moussaka - Vegetarian sushi (cucumber, avocado, carrots, ...) - Ground peppercorn black bean burger from Chilis (~ $6) - Sichuan eggplant or broccoli with rice

Hmm... that's probably 0.1% of the range of food I eat. ;-)

--ravi

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